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On the origin of the family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269437
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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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On the Origin of the Family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550011
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Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2016
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525001
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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757342
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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291387
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Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
Falk, Armin; Knell, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822641
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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128024
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Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C.M. - 2015
This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307494